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vi⋅sion

  [vizh-uhn]
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–noun
1. the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
2. the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
3. an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency: a heavenly messenger appearing in a vision. Compare hallucination (def. 1).
4. something seen or otherwise perceived during such an experience: The vision revealed its message.
5. a vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation: visions of wealth and glory.
6. something seen; an object of sight.
7. a scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty: The sky was a vision of red and pink.
8. computer vision.
–verb (used with object)
9. to envision: She tried to vision herself in a past century.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < L vīsiōn- (s. of vīsiō) a seeing, view, equiv. to vīs(us), ptp. of vidēre to see + -iōn- -ion

Related forms:
vi⋅sion⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
2. perception, discernment. 4. apparition, phantasm, chimera. See dream.
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computer vision

 
–noun
1. a robot analogue of human vision in which information about the environment is received by one or more video cameras and processed by computer: used in navigation by robots, in the control of automated production lines, etc.
2. a similar system for the blind that converts optical information into tactile signals.
Also called machine vision, vision.
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vi·sion   (vĭzh'ən)   
n.  

    1. The faculty of sight; eyesight: poor vision.

    2. Something that is or has been seen.

  2. Unusual competence in discernment or perception; intelligent foresight: a leader of vision.

  3. The manner in which one sees or conceives of something.

  4. A mental image produced by the imagination.

  5. The mystical experience of seeing as if with the eyes the supernatural or a supernatural being.

  6. A person or thing of extraordinary beauty.

tr.v.   vi·sioned, vi·sion·ing, vi·sions
To see in or as if in a vision; envision.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vīsiō, vīsiōn-, from vīsus, past participle of vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]
vi'sion·al adj., vi'sion·al·ly adv.
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Word Origin & History

vision 
c.1290, "something seen in the imagination or in the supernatural," from Anglo-Fr. visioun, O.Fr. vision, from L. visionem (nom. visio) "act of seeing, sight, thing seen," from pp. stem of videre "to see," from PIE base *weid- "to know, to see" (cf. Skt. veda "I know;" Avestan vaeda "I know;" Gk. oida, Doric woida "I know," idein "to see;" O.Ir. fis "vision," find "white," i.e. "clearly seen," fiuss "knowledge;" Welsh gwyn, Gaulish vindos, Breton gwenn "white;" Goth., O.Swed., O.E. witan "to know;" Goth. weitan "to see;" Eng. wise, Ger. wissen "to know;" Lith. vysti "to see;" Bulg. vidya "I see;" Pol. widziec' "to see," weidziec' "to know;" Rus. videt' "to see," vest' "news," O.Russ. vedat' "to know"). The meaning "sense of sight" is first recorded c.1491. Meaning "statesman-like foresight, political sagacity" is attested from 1926.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: vi·sion
Pronunciation: 'vizh-&n
Function: noun
1 : the act or power of seeing
2 : the special sense bywhich the qualities of an object (as color, luminosity, shape, and size) constituting its appearance are perceived and which is mediated by the eye
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Medical Dictionary

vision vi·sion (vĭzh'ən)
n.

  1. The faculty of sight; eyesight.

  2. The manner in which an individual sees or conceives of something.

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